The Missing

Each of the seven stories in Tory Tuttle's luminous first collection explores dislocation, whether from losing a child or the protection of a parent, or as a strategy to escape reality. A mother measures the distance growing between herself and her first child, who lived only three weeks; a teenager runs away from abuse, detention, and the indifference of her mother; a janitor's hold on reality dissolves after witnessing the murder of a child; a traveler, lacerated by the death of her sister, seeks solace through flight; a lonely woman whose child was stillborn experiences the world through daily bus rides; a woman is abandoned by her lover and her mother, though in drastically different ways; a wife protects her children by finally leaving her abusive husband. These uniquely rendered portraits, often impressionistic, depict the accommodations one makes to survive a world frequently inhospitable to human desire and longing.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Contingency Street Press
Published: 05/20/2023
ISBN: 9781958015025
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.32d

Review Citations: Foreword 04/11/2023
PW Booklife Reviews 05/15/2023
BlueInk Review 04/25/2023